gorge
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A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
These networks will gorge themselves during the feast years, then adapt to leaner times, remaining profitable, just not explosive.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
They'd been admiring the scenery and snapping selfies and were making their way along a footpath by the Graig Llech gorge when Lola veered off the path.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
In the initial media reports, Jonathan had been described as a witness, who had been walking with his father and told police that Isak had slipped and fallen to the bottom of the gorge below.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
The men discovered that the foaming white-water rapids ran through a deep gorge between steep, rock-strewn mountain chains.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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Elisabeth, resentful, gorges on whatever fatty food she can find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
In the same way that trees function as Earth's lungs, migrating animals—eating, pooping and dying along the way—circulate nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges to mountain peaks and from the poles to the tropics.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
The region is largely rural, made up of red-rock mountains, picturesque gorges and glistening streams and lakes.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
With its valleys, gorges, hills and rivers, the mountainous state of Uttarakhand - where Joshimath is located - offers a "fragile landscape", geologists say.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023
The gray stallion pulled his sled, piled high with rocks, through snowdrifts and through blizzards, up steep hills and down again, through icy gorges.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
They bonded further over an offseason trip to Tokyo, where they gorged on sushi and wagyu beef.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024
On a flat pitch under warm sun and against an inexperienced attack lacking any sort of cutting edge, England's batters gorged themselves.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
Even now, as Master Gogolev gorged himself on food and self-pity, son and father sat in Lord Fredrick’s taxidermy-filled study only one floor below, speaking of Switzerland, wallpaper, and baby names.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Barely a handful of winters have passed since Patriots fans, still gorging on six titles,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
After spending July gorging on the larvae of alkali flies, the birds are gradually departing this month to begin their migration to another saline lake about 6,000 miles away — Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
And lots of fright fans don’t limit their horror entertainment to spooky season, gorging horror movies, shows and books all year long.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
“It seems to have been really gorging itself, eating very rapidly.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
She thought about the mayor, down in his room full of plunder, gorging on peaches and asparagus and wrapping his huge body in elegant new clothes.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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